{"id":888,"date":"2005-05-12T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/12\/beyond-a-mere-escape\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:39","slug":"beyond-a-mere-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/12\/beyond-a-mere-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond A Mere Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s that the benefits of reading extend beyond a mere escape from oneself. They linger. Reading affords one a certain detachment from life. Reading allows me, at least, to approach the events of my own life with the same mild curiosity I have toward a good novel: it&#8217;s easier not to get so invested. One could argue that film and television must do the same, but in truth, there is something different between the mediums. Books &#8211; texts &#8211; are private, personal, unique. They&#8217;re fueled and informed by whatever you&#8217;ve already experienced. Movies are public. They give everything to you. Also, television and film are almost always (and necessarily) presented from a limited third-person point of view: the nature of the stated objectivity of the camera makes anything else difficult. Books can be written from the inside, or from all sides &#8211; you get a taste of what it&#8217;s like to experience the world through the eyes and skin and past of another.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Siona, <a href=\"http:\/\/siona.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/your-life-as-if-its-real.html\">Nomen Est Numen<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that the benefits of reading extend beyond a mere escape from oneself. They linger. Reading affords one a certain detachment from life. Reading allows me, at least, to approach the events of my own life with the same mild curiosity I have toward a good novel: it&#8217;s easier not to get so invested. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,30,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-recreation","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11964,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/11964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}